M.I.E. Music “Music is Everything"

64/65-1970 set of 3 CBS Grey Bottoms

Set of 3 Early CBS 1964-1970 Hand / Scatter Wound Boutique pickups with Black Top / Grey Bottom pickups. Beveled and Staggered magnets and RWRP Middle pickup. Wound with USA Remington 42 awg Plain Enamel wire. These pickups come with a complete Fender PN# 0991368000 Aged white accessory kit which includes Pickup Covers, all 3 knobs, 5-way tip, Tremolo arm tip and Tremolo back cover with Vintage push back cloth wiring and “ JIMI’s” Favorite LIVE performance pickups,The Plain Enamel Early CBS Vintage Nicknamed “ The Jimi Years “ has focused presence, very detailed, the mids bite in all the right places and has a tight low end with creamy highs. eBay Videos can not be longer than 1 minute or 150MB's on the Demos, so this demo is only 30 seconds long. I have full demos with Rosewood and Maple necks on my youtube page miemusicjobe but due to ebay policy I can not share a direct link. eBay AI BOTS scan all description's and messages so please follow the user agreement. Please return to ebay for your purchase , hopefully ebay will start allowing longer demo videos . Thanks 

CBS Fender changed to grey bottom flatware during the buyout and changed to plain enamel wire in 64/65. CBS Fender changed over to machine winding and the days of the great winders of a 10-year run were basically over. Abigal Ybarra still made special order pickups and had over six decades being over the winding dept after learning from Leo Fender himself and then trained Josefina Campos to take over as she was retiring for the special hand winding. I have owned just about every pickup they made. I base my pickups off my favorite Fender pickups from the Vintage years of 1954-1970 and having great feedback from all 3 of my selling sites with 5-star reviews and 100% perfect reviews.

 I build my pickups the old school way. Detailed pickup information below: The main reason Fender vintage guitars are so sought after is the Tone. That Tone came from Hand Wound Pickups. Now that changed once it went to CNC machine wound but now you can have the Early CBS grey bottom pickups in a hand-wound version. 

These pickups are Hand wound by me one at a time, in my USA shop. I use the top USA suppliers, using the highest quality parts while still making a low-cost affordable Vintage tone upgrade for your beloved instrument. 

Black Top / Grey bottom vintage 42-gauge plain enamel coil wire, .187 magnets, Alnico 5 spec. at 5.7k to 5.8k.

 

I specialize only in Vintage Stratocaster Pickups and for years now my Hand Wound Vintage tone pickups, magnifies the harmonics, the incidentals, the upper octaves, the fifths and the relationship of the pick to index finger strikes while maintaining strong sustained fundamental tone and real clarity. Most of my favorite Vintage Fender pickups have a little bulge in the middle and not the flat sides you see in CNC machined pickups. I added the bulge to replicate my Vintage pickups.

Specs:  Averages: 

Tested at 77 degrees and 42% humidity, +/- 5% on a DER EE LCR DE-5000 meter, this LCR Meter has a USB output that you can save on your PC / Mac in Microsoft. This gives me a record of every pickup I have made and sold. My Early CBS pickup sets test at or under 6k ohms and under 3.0 Henries, Built the Old school way.

 

My Assembly Steps:

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1- I install the Alnico 5 Rod Magnets into the flatwork, using a Pickup Jig on an Arbor Press.

2- I dip the finished bobbin in Lacquer.  This does two things; #1 It keeps the coil wire from shorting out directly onto the magnet.  This is where 90% of Vintage Fender Pickups fail.  The coil wire rubbing against the magnets. #2 This glues the flatwork to the magnets, eliminating the use of super glue. Dry time varies.  24 hours average.

3- Pickup Winding-I use a MoJoTone Pickup Winder. Varying my patterns and wire tension and proprietary way that I've developed, coming from months of hand on research and beta testing.

4- I install lead Vintage Push Back Cloth Wires directly to the pickups.

5- Perform the initial testing. k ohms, Henries, pf capacitance@1k and RP@1k

6- Waxing- I use 80% Paraffin and 20% Bees Wax. Heated to 140-150 degrees for 10-15 minutes for perfect response and clarity.

7- I wrap the coil with fabric tape for four reasons:  #1 It cuts down the chances of damaging the coil when changing pickup covers.  #2 Helps stop high gain monophonic feedback.  The tape has zero effect on tone. #3 Keeps out moisture, just an added protection and expense of building a long-lasting reliable pickup. #4 Some guitarists while recording will sit in the control room with the amp in the ISO room, while others like to sit or stand by their amp. I started to notice that most Gibson guitars did not have that high squeal and after checking those guitars had fabric tape on the pickups. So, I put some Fabric tape on a few of my Strats and was floored that this worked. Back in the 50's there was really no need for it because the amps was not as high powered as today’s. No change in tone.

8- Perform second round of testing, confirming the correct specifications are met.

9- Charge magnets.  I use a MoJoTone  N/S Charger. I fully charge all rod magnets once sold. I test the Gauss on a Tesla meter making sure of a smooth even charge on each magnet. Then I put the lead wires through the Flatware hole. I re-test the polarity of the pickups which are North for the Neck and Bridge and South for the RWRP middle pickup with a small polarity handheld tester.

I have been playing Strats for over 50 years and have a pretty good idea of how a Vintage Strat should sound. I am also sure many of you also know. Polls show 80% of the Strat players are happy with their tone. I am after that 20% very picky players. I would love to have orders from that 80% to show them what they are missing and what a low-cost pickup upgrade can do for their guitar and the enjoyment these pickups can bring.

My pickups are made to last and come from the result of listening to my vintage guitar collection and taking apart a bucket full of DEAD Fender pickups, studying them, painstakingly un-winding them, and taking very detailed notes. This is how I came up with my proprietary way of hand winding my pickups. I started BETA testing in 2020 on every kind of neck and body wood made. Plus tested on tube and solid-state amps, pedals, digital devices, and software in my recording studio Mie Music, that I opened in 1999, with fantastic results.

I have built numerous partcasters, and have installed my pickups, and they are highly comparable to my vintage collection. I am receiving great reviews and feedback from all the guitar players currently using my pickups

 “Enjoy Peace Of Mind “with your new gear.

The work has been done, so install, and you will find complete nirvana for recording and playing live.

MIE MUSIC "Music is Everything"

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